8/21, concerning the construction project at Washington/E Berkeley/Shawmut. As you can see by the rendering to the right, this initial proposal is a massive building, and most folks will this this is a bit out of scale for the neighborhood. (the 'small' brown building on the left is the Project Place building (Meyers & Chang) at the corner of Washington & East Berkeley)
Please come out and give the city your opinion - and bring your friends and neighbors. If attendance at the meeting is thin, the city will think we don't care!!
Please be advised that an Expanded Project Notification Form regarding 80 East Berkeley Street in the South End was received by the BRA on August 8, 2013. The Druker Company, Ltd. (the “Proponent”) proposes an eleven-story building with approximately 290,000 square feet of office space on ten floors and approximately 18,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and/or restaurant space, as well as an underground parking garage containing a total of approximately 200 public and accessory parking spaces. The Proposed Project also includes an accessway connecting Washington Street and Shawmut Avenue.
A public meeting will be held on this proposal. Details below:
Meeting date/time: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 6:00PM
Meeting location: The Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street
3 comments:
Actually, I'd like to see buildings of that size go up between Berkeley and Herald Street along Washington and Harrison Avenue.
I don't see any issue with the scale and would like to encourage more buildings of that size which hopefully will creep further up and (one day) over I-90.
Unfortunately, I cannot make the meeting later this week to share my thoughts.
BosGuy
I hope this building gets constructed. This part of Washington Street could use the foot traffic. The other buildings in this part of the neighborhood are flat, commercial structures that have outlived their usefulness. Like the other commenter wrote, I hope this project is the start of other tall buildings coming to Washington Street. The city could use affordable housing and office space, which this project will provide.
This area was rezoned recently to encourage new development. If this building fits within the new zoning, I'm fine with it. The important thing is that it should have street facing retail or at least big windows and multiple entrances.
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